The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Starboard side view of the 45647 ton transport, HMT Aquitania departing in convoy US3 from Australia with troops third contingent of 2nd AIF bound for North Africa. The Cunard liner saw service as both a transport and hospital ship during the First World War and was again requisitioned at the outbreak of the Second World War. She took part in eight of the US series of convoys, transporting troops to Singapore and Port Moresby and returning troops from the Middle East. In November 1941 the liner picked up survivors from the German raider Kormoran after her action with HMAS Sydney off the Western Australian coast.
1940-05-05. AERIAL STARBOARD SIDE VIEW OF THE TRANSPORT RMS AQUITANIA AS PART OF CONVOY US.3 TAKING TROOPS FROM AUSTRALIA TO THE MIDDLE EAST. THE AQUITANIA WAS PART OF EIGHT OF THE US SERIES OF CONVOY
Starboard stern view of the troopship, HMT Empress of Japan (II), from the bow of HMAS Canberra, departing in convoy US3 from Australia with troops of the third contingent of 2nd AIF bound for North A
Manuscript titled `HMAS Sydney/HMT Aquitania'. Discusses whether the Aquitania might have broken radio silence to report the location of survivors from the German raider `Kormoran' after its battle wi
The Cunard liner Franconia lying at Alexandria. She was one of the transports employed in transporting Australian troops from Egypt to France in the early months of 1916.
Group of survivors from SS Barunga which sunk after being struck by a torpedo on 15 July 1918. SS Barunga was formerly the German-Australian liner Sumatra of Hamburg, captured at Sydney, NSW, at the o
Group of survivors from SS Barunga which sunk after being struck by a torpedo on 15 July 1918. SS Barunga was formerly the German-Australian liner Sumatra of Hamburg, captured at Sydney, NSW, at the o
